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Why didn't Anakin fade away when he died?

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Stupid me...fan for years, and I'm just now thinking this...what gives?
Which is the more foolish, the fool (the OT) or the fool who follows (the PT)?

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He did, It just wasn't shown. The Radio drama has the line, "I burn his armor, and with it the name of Darth Vader."


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The Annotated Screenplays has it both ways: Burning Anakin in the suit, and then burning the suit by itself (in the SE version).

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Originally posted by: Klingon_Jedi
He did, It just wasn't shown. The Radio drama has the line, "I burn his armor, and with it the name of Darth Vader."

No, he didn't disappear. And conclusive evidence finally comes in the commentary on the upcoming ROTJ DVD. When talking about this scene Lucas says: "This little scene where he burns his father's body..."

Now why didn't he disappear? Simple, and this is just my opinion, he doesn't know how.
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Didn't Lucas or McCallum (Star Wars' answer to Berman) once say that the disappearance would be explained in one of the movies? I could have sworn someone said something about this, and also other little problems.

Anakin Skywalker, I meant, to whoever asked "which anakin"...
Which is the more foolish, the fool (the OT) or the fool who follows (the PT)?

"Stay back, or Mr...Fett gets it!"
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Back again.

I had this crazy theory, that Obi-Wan himself did not fade away when he died too. He slipped through a vent in the Death Star, and his clothes remained. Then, he was trapped naked in a trash compactor, and THEN he really died. It's a little something GL will show us in the ultimate edition.

And since Obi-Wan didn't vanish as well, what is the only Jedi who has faded away when died? Yoda. And why Yoda did it? Because his specie does that when it dies. There you go, there's your explanation, I'm out of here, see you next time...
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Well, wait till, may. That is when it will be explained, when RotS comes out. Till then, no Jo-Shmo fan really knows.
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Back again.

I had this crazy theory, that Obi-Wan himself did not fade away when he died too. He slipped through a vent in the Death Star, and his clothes remained. Then, he was trapped naked in a trash compactor, and THEN he really died. It's a little something GL will show us in the ultimate edition.

And since Obi-Wan didn't vanish as well, what is the only Jedi who has faded away when died? Yoda. And why Yoda did it? Because his specie does that when it dies. There you go, there's your explanation, I'm out of here, see you next time...


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I think he simply didn't know how. When Vader strikes down Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan disappears, Vader looks a bit confused, so it's quite possible he didn't know it was possible for jedis to do that.
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Perhaps he was confused because he used to have eyebrows and in the DVD edition they have gone!

This dissappearing/burning issue is one I have come across on plenty of other forums. Nobody has managed to explain why Qui Gon didn't dissappear when he died (you clearly see him on the pyre). Some believed back in 1999 that Qui Gon was actually a secret dark sider and that dark Jedi don't dissappear (as in the case of Anakin in ROTJ). Unfortunately this hasn't been explained in AOTC and no spy reports make any mention of it for ROTS. Perhaps the answer is simple... it could be a complete oversight by Mr Lucas and co.

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Ok, besides the explanation I mentioned above, there are a lot of them:

* Maybe they can control it, and vanish if they want to when they die.

*When they fully accept death, they dissapear. If they are murdered in a surprising way, or die before they wanted to, the body remains.

* Maybe they kind of self-destructed! I mean, Vader dosen't seem to hit Obi-Wan, he seems to vanish before that.

* There was this theory I've read somewhere -maybe here - that when a Jedi dies, he can "attach" his spirit to a person nearby, and therefore disapear, Obi-Wan and Yoda did it with Luke. Remember that ghost movie staring Robert Downey Jr.? Yep like that.

Or, it could be as I have ALWAYS said it would be:

(during a post-revenge of the sith release press conferece interview)

REPORTER: Mr Lucas, one question remained unanswerd, why do some Jedi disapear when they die, while others don't?

GEORGE: (getting up) Awww crap! I KNEW I have forgot something! Damn, here I go BACK to the editing room! Call every ILM animator to go back to work now, and re-call the movie. We'll re-release it in August. (goes away)

(reporters are puzzled. 5 seconds later George gets back)
GEORGE: Forgot my keys.

(10 seconds later, George gets back again)
GEORGE: Oh and, since you've all seen my movie, was there anything else missing? Any plot holes I should know about? So I can fix it now?
REPORTER: Well, there was the whole C3PO remembering nothing thing... And Obi-Wan was NOT supposed to die on episode 3...
GEORGE: OH CRAP! Jesus this is going to be harder than I thought! Gotta go, thanks!
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LOL Nice...very nice.
Which is the more foolish, the fool (the OT) or the fool who follows (the PT)?

"Stay back, or Mr...Fett gets it!"
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HOW COULD HE LOOK CONFUSED!!!!

Well, not in a facial expression kind of way, but he's looking around and checking Obi-Wan's cloak with his foot.
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GL said something about it being explained in the following two films back in '99.
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both Obi Wan and Yoda were both well aware that that they were about to die, that may explain how they were able to surrender their crude flesh and become luminous beings at the point of their Deaths, I think they did this so that they could attach themselves to Luke and act as spirit guides to Luke, remember Obi-Wans line in A New Hope where he say's "if you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." then he looks towards Luke raises his sword and surrenders his life,

I always believed that he disappeared before Vaders sabre made contact, therefore robbing Vader of the satisfaction in killing his former master. I remember once hearing something about ancient Tibetan monks (or possibly Shogun) having the ability to will themselves into cardiac arrest just before their enemy's delivered the fatal blow.

In ROTJ just after Yoda's death, obi-wan tells Luke that Yoda will always be with him, perhaps because Luke was the last of the Jedi, Obi wan and Yoda were able to join their spirits, knowledge and powers to Luke, whereas the other Jedi Qui-gonn and Vader , not to mention all the jedi killed in the battle of Geonosis simply died without the benefit of foresight. given Vader's dark past the last thing he would want to do would be to risk passing any of those traits on to Luke.